Letter, from Mr Muray to Robert Moray, dated at Mockjack Bay in Virginia

Reference number: EL/M1/36a

Date: 01 January 1665

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Wishes to know the best recipe for making 'common white salt' and how bay salt at Rochel in France is made; discussing the planting of 10,000 mulbery trees in Virginia and about silk manufacture; that barley and rice-seed had been sown; about commodities in Virginia; that Muray hoped to send some sweet-scented tobacco
Read to the Royal Society on 28 March 1666

Reference number: EL/M1/36a
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1665
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Letter, from Mr Muray to Robert Moray, dated at Mockjack Bay in Virginia, 01 January 1665, EL/M1/36a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m1_36a/letter-from-mr-muray-to-robert-moray-dated-at-mockjack-bay-in-virginia, accessed on 29 April 2025

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters M1
1651-1713 Reference number: EL/M1

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